Linux-Networking Digest #776, Volume #10 Wed, 7 Apr 99 07:13:56 EDT
Contents:
Re: secure ftp (mamo)
stop plain passwords samba (Simon Mawn)
Re: Recommend Fast Ethernet Card (Allen)
Re: Recommend Fast Ethernet Card (Allen)
OnBoard Fast Ethernet DEC 21143-based Adapter ("Ronny Pol")
Re: IPX and TCP/IP on same Linux machine (Alexey Kakhno)
very slow responce from telnet, ftp and route ? ("Marten")
windows & linux (Tony Langdon)
Red Hat 5.2 (Tony Langdon)
linux isp's (Tony Langdon)
Setting up PPP DialIn Server ... connects but won't work (David Morris)
new to linux need aplications (Tony Langdon)
Setting Up Proxy Server on Small Network (Tony Langdon)
MS-LINUX (Tony Langdon)
Mounting MacIntosh 3'5" Disks (Tony Langdon)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mamo)
Subject: Re: secure ftp
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 07:10:50 GMT
On Tue, 06 Apr 1999 17:58:25 +0200, Wouter Liefting
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>mamo wrote:
>
>> I have a unix box that have to be a web server.
>>
>> A lot of users have to put pages on it. I do not want them to put the
>> ftp password in clear text but i want the password cripted .
>
>Paranoid? All of the ISP�s I know do it with uncrypted passwords over the
>net. But then again, all these connections are usually only in-house
>connections, from the local modem pool to the local server, and thus
>pretty hard to snoop for anybody else.
The system i am speaking about is in a university lan where a lot of
system have been compromised (not amministred by me).
So it is thinkable that in the lan some sniffer are running (I'm not
paranoid, I have seen more than one linux box with the network card in
promiscous mode not having putted by the official administrator of the
system ....:-))).
>
>> Is there a protocol that have a server for linux and clients for unix
>> and win and if possible other that do it.
>
>Not that I know of. At least not ftp.http however allows a PUT operation,
>which basically does the same. But with http you can use https and have a
>secure connection to transfer the password and the data itself.
Can You give me more detail about what have to be done on the clinet
side to make possible the user put pages using https with apache.
Mamo
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From: Simon Mawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: stop plain passwords samba
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:25:15 +0000
I change my samba to encrypted passwords and it works. My Problem, it
also accepts plain passwords. How can I stop accepting plain passwords ?
Simon.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Recommend Fast Ethernet Card
Date: 7 Apr 1999 06:52:16 GMT
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:52:34 -0400, "Chris Cantwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Intel Pro/100B and 3Com905 are at the top of my list. I use both of these
>with little trouble. the 905b cards have been causig hassles, although the
>driver should have been fixed by now. I have heard that Digital 2104x cards
>work well (tulip driver) although I haven't tried them. Netgear sells a
>2104x card (FA410TX) for $25 each, if you shop around. Netgear has a
>modified tulip driver on their website for these cards,
>
I'm sure he means the DEC 2114x, since the 2104x was for 10BaseT, not
100BaseTX... That chipset was reportedly one of the fastest of the group. They
got bought out by Intel, and discontiued, but you may still find some of them
around in various incarnations. Possible sources for that include: Adaptec
ANA6911TX which is a renamed Cogent since they bought out Cogent, or oddly
enough, Asant'e-- They have a 21140-AE based card that I saw on the shelf at a
Comp-USA, and it was the PC or MAC compatible package, going for about $60 ea.
and I'd bet that since there are many cheaper cards on the shelf, and that the
Mac's are just about the hottest selling thing on the market;-), one might find
this very same card on the shelf at most Comp-USA's, or one could order it from
them via the internet. I'd prefer to actually see what I was getting in this
case, since they don't care what the chipset is on the card, and don't care
about Linux support either, so I'd be a little leary of buying it mail-order if
I was looking specifically looking for this chipset, since the specs may have
changed, and they dont have to tell you... I even emailed the manufacturer's
techs to verify the chipset...
copied from that response:
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Allen,
It is the DEC 21140-AE chipset. We don't bundle the LINUX drivers with
it, but alot of LINUX users are able to use the TULIP driver with our
card.
Alan Larsen
Asante Technologies, Inc.
Support: 800-622-7464
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http://www.asante.com
ftp://ftp.asante.com
HTH
Allen
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PC/hardware Guru, and Linux Newbie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Recommend Fast Ethernet Card
Date: 7 Apr 1999 07:17:07 GMT
Try this URL... They ship fast, and have a few that actually claim to have the
DEC chipset...
http://gamma.cmpexpress.com/store/htmlos/27264.4.64997696372
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:19:21 -0700, Jon Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone recommend a fast PCI Ethernet card for Linux?
>
>Thanks!
Allen
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From: "Ronny Pol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OnBoard Fast Ethernet DEC 21143-based Adapter
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:07:11 +0200
Hi
I have a problem with my Digital Celebris GL2.
I have a OnBoard Fast Ethernet DEC 21143-based Adapter.
In my S.u.S.E. Linux installation I have chose the TULIP driver, but it
doesn't work.
Who knows the problem and who can help me.
Thanks
Ronny
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexey Kakhno)
Subject: Re: IPX and TCP/IP on same Linux machine
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 10:07:03 GMT
On Wed, 07 Apr 1999 01:51:26 GMT, Akira Yamanita
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> does anyone know if it is possible to configure Linux RedHat 5.2
>> to use 2 network cards. One of the cards should use the TCP/IP protocol
>> to commuicate with a NT server and the second network card should use
>> the IPX protocol to access an Novell File Server. The NT server and
>> the Novell Server are on separate networks.
>>
>> thanks in advance
>> Ronnie Wengfelt
>>
>> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
>> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
>Why not use both protocols on the same card?
I have 4 netcards 3c509, 2 of 3c900, 3c905 on Linux box.
Ipx and tcpip work fine on the same cards.
IP Routing and MARS_Netware_emulator work fine too.
Alexey, Russia
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From: "Marten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: very slow responce from telnet, ftp and route ?
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 20:15:01 +1000
I just re-installed redhat 5.2 and i have knoticed that telnet and ftp
session take ages to start (about 20-30 seconds). Also if i do a 'route' it
take a long time as well ('route -n' works fast). Is this a DNS problem I
have a caching only DNS running. Also DHCP and samba. Everything seems to
run.
thanks Marten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Langdon)
Date: 07 Apr 99 19:08:11
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: windows & linux
It's 06 Apr 99 14:43,
We'll return to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and All's
discussion of windows & linux
mi> Anybody who want to use windows & linux together this product creates
mi> a virtual computer, so you can boot 95/98/NT inside a linux Xwindow. I
mi> am still working on getting win95 to boot up. Dowload linux version
mi> here: http://www.vmware.com/
I have installed the Linux beta of this product, and quite amazing and
despite being a beta, very stable. So far, I've installed Win 95 and
migrated an existing Win NT partition to work under vmware with few
problems. Win 98 went smoothly, NT worked, once the "hardware" changes
were accommodated. In short, I was impressed no end. :-)
Pros:
Stable (I haven't managed to crash or corrupt the vmware environment in
any way).
Full network support - you can allocate the VM a separate IP address and
network it quite happily.
Flexible - virtual drives (in a file), existing partitions, CDs and
floppies can be accommodated.
Partial sound support (digital audio supported).
Cons:
Expensive - $299 US for the final version when it ships.
Slow - Much faster than Bochs, but still requires a P266 or better for
acceptable Win 95 performance, faster for NT.
For those of us who need multiple OS's, well worth a look.
Test machines:
6x86 M2 266 (slightly overclocked), running Red Hat 4.2. This had Win
95 installed under vmware on a virtual drive. Performance was generally
good, except for the response time for clicking on dialog boxes, which
was very slow for some strange reason. Windows happily networked with
the local domain controllers, WINS and DHCP, as though it was running on
a separate machine. Overall speed was similar to a low end Pentium
(except for that dialog box problem). Because RH 4.2 does not have
glibc, I had to make use of the glibc2.07 which I had installed with
Star Office. In addition, I needed some extra X libraries which I
pinched from a Red Hat 5.2 box. :-)
6x86 MX 233. I installed vmware under Red Hat 5.2 with no problems.
After figuring out how to access a real partition and set the access
permissions (being careful not to allow both Linux and NT access the
same partitions), NT fired up fine. Speed was quite slow, with NT
taking about 15 minutes to boot (instead of the normal 4-5 mins), and
quite slow response times to mouse actions. Overall speed would be like
the minimum 486 NT can run on.
The poor documentation of the partition access was due to the fact it
was apparently a new feature in recent betas.
Anyway, that's the low down from a first hand perspective. :-)
.. "All we are saying," "Is give pizza chants."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Langdon)
Date: 07 Apr 99 19:03:10
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Red Hat 5.2
It's 07 Apr 99 01:39,
We'll return to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and All's
discussion of Red Hat 5.2
fr> There is plenty of documentation on the CD that you can access under
fr> Windows.
fr> Point a browser at \doc\rhmanual\manual\index.htm on whatever drive
fr> your CD is.
Excellent advice. :-) I was going to say the same.
fr> Why am I telling you to read a manual? Because installing Linux is far
fr> too involved
fr> to explain in a posting. Everything you will ever do with Linux has
fr> been documented
fr> and learning Linux involves finding your way around the documentation.
fr> And, unlike Windows "help" files which are usually useless, Linux
fr> documentation
fr> really does provide practical information, in particular the How-to
fr> documents.
fr> These documents were generally written by people who discovered the
fr> hard way how to
fr> set things up, and then wrote it down.
I agree too. In general, I've found Linux docs to be some of the best
docs for any product I've seen. They usually cover things a step at a
time, and are logically grouped.
The other great thing about Linux docs is if you find a better way to do
something, email the maintainer of the piece of documentation, and
chances are your contribution will be incorporated! :-)
.. I'm not illiterate, my parents were married!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Langdon)
Date: 07 Apr 99 19:45:18
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: linux isp's
It's 07 Apr 99 02:59,
We'll return to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and All's
discussion of linux isp's
st> One question, what options to customers of ISP's who use MS non
st> standard Chap-81 authentication have in hooking up their accounts in
st> linux. The reason behind this post, was I had read that some ISPs were
st> Windows only ISP, (check out Healey.com as an example).
I believe pppd can be recompiled to support MS-CHAP. Haven't tried this
myself. The PPP How To may help here as well.
Or the obvious solution. Change ISPs (and let them know why you
changed! :) ). Besides, if they're using NT for an ISP, be very, very
worried. NT isn't the greatest choice for an ISP. :)
.. Did you take a shower? There seems to be one missing.
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From: David Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setting up PPP DialIn Server ... connects but won't work
Date: 7 Apr 1999 07:32:11 GMT
I'm doing my darndest trying to get my Linux system setup as a PPP
server for my NT Laptop. The NT connects just fine to my PPP ISP
(unrelated to the ISP used for my Linux LAN). The NT dials and connects
with the Linux system. Debug messages seem to show a normal login,
LCP negotiation and connection. The NT reports that the connection
is established.
But the most I can ever do over this connection is PING from the NT to
Linux (or other hosts on the LAN) but only using the IP address. I can
never PING from Linux to the NT. I can't TELNET from the NT to Linux.
I see no indication of an error on Linux but the NT reports very
frequent CRC errors. I can generally correlate the errors with DNS
responses if I try to ping via host name or to the ping packets when I
try to ping the NT from Linux.
I'm running Linux kernel 2.0.35 and last night I upgraded ppp to 2.3.5
and that made no difference. I've connected using manual login and
using the mgetty AutoPPP feature with PAP authentication.
Seems like there is a disagreement between NT and Linux re. CRC generation
but I need a clue what to check.
Thanks,
Dave Morris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Langdon)
Date: 07 Apr 99 19:26:13
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: new to linux need aplications
It's 06 Apr 99 23:07,
We'll return to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and All's
discussion of new to linux need aplications
ni> I'm new to linux, got it installed OK on my PC - including X but don't
ni> know where to go from here.
ni> What is a good text editor ?
Good for beginners: joe or pico
Powerful: vi or emacs
I'd suggest one of the first two until you're ready to try the more
complex editors.
ni> how can I read a postscript file from my floppy drive ?
Use Ghostview under X (install the package). Or the simple method..
hook up a postscript printer and lpr <filename> :-)
ni> Is there a book or tutorials that can take me through this ?
The first place to look is on the CD (make sure you install all the
documentation). Failing that, there's some good "treeware" in the
stores, look around. Personally, the Linux docs are some of the best
written documentation I've seen for any software product (certainly
beats those silly books one gets with Windows :) ). If all the
documentation was put together, you'd end up with a 1500+ page book such
as the Linux Bible. :-) However, it's well broken down so you won't get
too overwhelmed.
.. You live and learn or you don't live long!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Langdon)
Date: 07 Apr 99 19:42:17
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Setting Up Proxy Server on Small Network
It's 06 Apr 99 23:13,
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discussion of Setting Up Proxy Server on Small Network
da> Alternately, simply move a CDROM from another of your machines for the
da> time it takes for the install. Once the OS is loaded, the presence or
da> absence of the CDROM unit really doesn't matter. There are nastier
da> methods involving NFS or even copying the contents of the CD to
da> harddrive, but for the sake of swapping a piece of hardware for a
da> couple of hours, why bother?
Actually, the NFS method is quite useful. Once you have one Linux box,
export the CD as read only to the world, and any new machine can be
easily installed over NFS. I've found this method to be as reliable as
a standard CD installed, and a piece of cake, once the NFS server is
configured (a one off operation).
.. "Let's all go camping!!"... not!...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Langdon)
Date: 07 Apr 99 19:02:09
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: MS-LINUX
It's 06 Apr 99 22:51,
We'll return to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and All's
discussion of MS-LINUX
sa> A long, long time ago M$ had Xenix.
And apparently it sold like ice cubes in the Arctic. :-)
.. [* <--Tribble with a walkman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Langdon)
Date: 07 Apr 99 19:40:16
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Mounting MacIntosh 3'5" Disks
It's 06 Apr 99 23:12,
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discussion of Mounting MacIntosh 3'5" Disks
da> Having had the fortune to have my wife win an iMac, we are attempting
da> to transfer some software from an old Mac Classic II to the new
da> machine. Unfortunately, with no floppy drive on the iMac, it seems
da> that transferring onto the local network via my linux box might be the
da> preferred solution, and FTPing from there. Unfortunately, at a first
da> glance it seems that the high density mac disk format (sometimes
da> emulated on a PC) is not supported by most distributions of linux
da> (currently using slackware, with kernel 2.0.33).
da> Any suggestions or pointers for this one? Transferring from the Mac
da> Classic to my win95 PC on to the linux machine and thence to the iMac
da> is just too tortuous a path to want to contemplate!
I thought HFS was supported, but there is another way. If you can
network the Macs, installing Appletalk and netatalk (Appleshare server)
on the Linux box should do the trick. :-)
.. For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
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